SCAR Composite Gazetteer

Fletcher Bay

Fletcher Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Fletcher Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 4714
Name ID: 116

Feature type: Bay

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

This bay of Long Fjord in the Vestfold Hills is a pupping site of Weddell seals. It holds fast ice in some years even when the ice has gone from other areas of the fjord.

Named For

Named after Dr Lloyd Fletcher, Medical Officer Davis 1978 who did a magnificient job tagging seals in Long Fjord. Without him the work would not have been done.

Location

Latitude:

68° 30' 32.4" S

-68.50900°

Accurate to 30m

Longitude:

78° 17' 23.6" E

78.28989°

Accurate to 30m

Altitude:

0 m

Unknown precision

Images

©Richard 'Tubby' Seton 2009

Catalogue id: IA21891
Caption: Fletcher Bay, Vestfold Hills. Taken from helicopter at height of 800 feet. Looking Northeast.
Photographer: Seton, Richard

Map

Source

Location Method:

Topographic data

Source Name:

Vestfold Hills Topographic GIS Dataset

Source Identifier:

vest_hills_gis

Source Scale:

1:5000

Source Institution:

Australian Antarctic Division

Source Person:

Brolsma

Source Publisher:

Australian Antarctic Division

Remote sensing:

Not Applicable

Comments

Metadata for coordinates and origin of topographic data.

Approval status

Status:

Official

Date approved:

26-Jul-1983

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